Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.